http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2010/08/31/mission-accomplished-live-blogging-obamas-primetime-address/ A NonPartisan Analysis of Presidential Politics Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2010/08/31/mission-accomplished-live-blogging-obamas-primetime-address/comment-page-1/#comment-18037 Dale Steinacker Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:29:51 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/?p=8311#comment-18037 I’m having trouble figuring who Obama was trying to reach with this speech. He was not calling on the public to back a new effort. There were two possible groups he was talking to and he can’t win with either.
The people who backed the surge and would celebrate the victory are the people who didn’t vote for him and would give most of the credit for Iraq to Bush.
Obama, and the people who supported him, were likely opposed to the Iraq effort and would have nothing to celebrate.
With the “summer of recovery” not working out very well, I guess he was looking to take credit for something but I don’t see this as something that helps him with any group.

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2010/08/31/mission-accomplished-live-blogging-obamas-primetime-address/comment-page-1/#comment-18032 Jeff Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:07:33 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/?p=8311#comment-18032 http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Oval-gets-makeover-cue-Beltway-screaming-101888993.html

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